This article explores policy approaches to educating populations for potential critical infrastructurecollapse in five different countries: the UK, the US, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. ‘Criticalinfrastructure’ is not always easy to define, and indeed is defined slightly differently across countries– it includes entities vital to life, such as utilities (water, energy), transportation systems andcommunications, and may also include social and cultural infrastructure. The article is a mappingexercise of different approaches to critical infrastructure protection and preparedness education bythe five countries. The exercise facilitates a comparison of the countries and enables us to identifydistinctive characteristics of each country’s approach. We argue that contrary to what most scholarsof security have argued, these national approaches diverge greatly, suggesting that they are shapedmore by internal politics and culture than by global approaches.

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